Leo Tolstoy: Howie Carr's Ghostwriter?

Behold the Internet's latest triumph of cultural appropriation: I Write Like.
The website, founded by a 27-year-old Russian software programmer named
Dmitry Chestnykh, is basically every wanna-be literati's
morning-mirror-self-pep-talk session: Plug in a couple paragraphs of
your best wordsmithery, and I Write Like will tell you which esteemed
author your writing most resembles.

We're
not sure how it works; probably something to do with science or magic
(this is more confounding than magnets!). But according to an
Associated Press article, the site uses an algorithm to identify
keywords in your writing that resemble those frequently used by the
authors in the system. Right now, that author database is kind of slim,
yielding only limited comparisons, but it's still a lot of fun. Plus,
it's definitely less creepy than the last Internet fad created by a web savvy Russian dude.

So,
as the site's concept demands, we've taken some passages committed to
page by Boston's quotable public figures to see how they stack up
against the most revered users of the English language.Mayor Thomas Menino: Cory DoctorowA random excerpt from Menino's January 4, 2010 Inaugural Address is
apparently in the linguistic vein of noted blogger, novelist and
copyright activist Cory Doctorow.

Amanda Palmer: Stephen KingA July 7 post on her "Amanda Fucking Palmer" blog revealed that this
Dresden Doll's musing on the mid-summer heatwave and the "Double
Rainbow" YouTube clip has a certain, uhh, terrifying ring to it? It
might have something to do with the use of the phrase "i am the lizard
king." Or it could just be because she's Amanda fucking Palmer.Howie Carr: Leo TolstoyAn excerpt from Carr's July 18 column for the Herald came back heavily
bearded and lengthy. I'm sure you could ask Carr to produce vivid
descriptions of 19th-century Tsarist society if you wanted to, but he'd
probably just yell at you.

Attorney General Martha Coakley: Raymond ChandlerIn the interest of fairness, Coakley came out with just as unlikely a
literary counterpart. The first few paragraphs of her concession speech
to Scott Brown appear to be the work of pulp writer and early perfecter
of the private detective character Raymond Chandler. This certainly is
a case fit for Philip Marlowe.